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Year: 1966 Publisher: New York: Scarecrow press,
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ISBN: 9781786331090 1786331098 Year: 2018 Publisher: London, England : Hutchinson,
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Discover speeches that altered the course of history, like Nelson Mandela's on the day he became South Africa's first black President, and outpourings of much-needed change, such as the impassioned, impromptu appeal for women's rights from Sojourner Truth, an African-American woman born into slavery. Expect the gloriously unexpected, as Kermit the Frog takes to the podium, and celebrate lives well-lived, including Tilda Swinton's tribute to 'every alien's favourite cousin', David Bowie. While some speeches are heard by millions, some remain unspoken: the secret draft prepared for Queen Elizabeth II during a military exercise for World War III, and President Nixon's chilling public announcement should Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become stranded on the Moon. Surprising, inspiring and shocking; moving, comforting and enlightening.
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Year: 1696 Publisher: Edinburgh : printed by George Mosman, and to be sold at the author's privat school, within the foot of Foresters Wynde together with the third edition of his Rudiments in English, and Judex poeticus, a most necessary addition to the third part of grammar,
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ISBN: 0292752385 Year: 2000 Publisher: Austin (Tex.) University of Texas Press
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ISBN: 141235241X Year: 2006 Publisher: Chicoutimi : J.-M. Tremblay,
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Year: 2003 Publisher: Brussels : NATO,
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ISBN: 3861243121 Year: 1995 Publisher: Berlin : Edition Q,
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Year: 1942 Publisher: Garden City, NY : Garden City,
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ISBN: 185788048X Year: 1994 Publisher: London : Nicholas Brealey,
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ISBN: 0434992291 0674992520 0674994116 Year: 1929 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,
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The importance of Isocrates (436-338 BCE) for the study of Greek civilization of the fourth century BCE is indisputable. Twenty-one discourses by Isocrates survive; these include political essays, treatises on education and on ethics, and speeches for legal cases. Nine letters, more on public than private matters, are also extant. The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilisation of the fourth century BCE is indisputable. From 403 to 393 he wrote speeches for Athenian law courts, and then became a teacher of composition for would-be orators. After setting up a school of rhetoric in Chios he returned to Athens and established there a free school of "philosophia" involving a practical education of the whole mind, character, judgment, and mastery of language. This school had famous pupils from all over the Greek world, such as the historians Ephorus and Theopompus and orators Isaeus, Lycurgus, and Hypereides. Isocrates also wrote in gifted style essays on political questions, his main idea being a united Greece to conquer the Persian empire. Thus in his fine Panegyricus (written for the 100th Olympiad gathering in 380) he urged that the leadership should be granted to Athens, possibly in conjunction with Sparta. In the end he looked to Philip of Macedon, but died just as Philip's supremacy in Greece began. Twenty-one discourses by Isocrates survive; these include political essays, treatises on education and on ethics, and speeches for legal cases. Nine letters are also extant; they are concerned more with public than with private matters. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Isocrates is in three volumes.
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